C-SPAN offers live coverage of the Texas Book Festival

Cultural critic Margo Jefferson will discuss her memoir “Negroland” at the Texas Book Festival.

If you can’t make it to Austin this weekend for the Texas Book Festival on the capitol grounds, don’t worry, the book festival can come to you via C-SPAN’s Book-TV.

The cable network will be airing live coverage of festival authors and events Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday’s coverage includes University of Texas at Austin historian H.W. Brands (“Reagan: The Life”), National Public Radio host Steve Inskeep (“Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab”) and former presidential chief of staff John Sununu (“The Quiet Man: The Indispensable Presidency of George H.W. Bush.” C-SPAN also will broadcast coverage of a civil rights panel and a panel discussion on American space flight.

NPR host Steve Inskeep will discuss his book on Andrew Jackson.

Sunday’s coverage features panel discussions on Isis, artificial intelligence, technology and innovation, and LBJ. It also will feature an interview with Margo Jefferson (“Negroland: A Memoir”).

The full schedule is available at www.booktv.org. To find your C-SPAN channel, go to www.c-span.org.